 Good morning from location two of Jamie's van build party today. We go down and get a bunch of packages for everybody But here is the other spot. We're just kind of up on a Little hillside. We got booted out of the last place because it was indeed BLM Sorry, it was indeed Arizona State Land. This is BLM But actually I kind of like this scenery better over here. So That's it the road All right, you see that metal center. Let me show you how this Living without an address thing works So wherever you are in the town you can just sign up at a place like that and then have packages sent there And then just go pick them up. So these are some of his packages and Some of the groups and things like that So pretty easy, right? I don't see what I ordered. I ordered a Stabilizer he came by yesterday. He must have it in his school bus First breakfast burrito. Hi. Can I get a breakfast burrito with steak? No cheese. No queso I gotta turn the engine off Mission accomplished Thanks, Villa Burdos Well, look who who I bumped into here caravan Carolyn It looks like she's gonna have a little work done today. Could we say hello this morning? Because I had a disaster coming down here. What happened? I forgot to batten down the hatches and everything. Oh Man, everything's on the floor. Yeah, we'll check in. We'll check in a little bit later then Good morning. What just tell me what what do you haven't done today? I am that right now drains into a bucket and I'm going to put the drain through the Floor floor. Yeah, good. Yeah, so you can you can rinse all that eco-friendly soap away exactly Exactly and eco-friendly shampoo. There we go. All right. Well, we'll check in a little bit later Hey, Eric, how are you this morning? Miss you buddy if you guys don't know about Jamie He's one of the nicest individuals I've ever met You should check out this backstory if you don't know it Basically, he crowdfunded a whole entire bus and fix it up for Tamara and we're gonna meet Tamara super cool meet Tamara Can you give us a quick tour? Yeah, don't look at my trash though So I was living in a car for two years and I'd met Jamie at this event last year And he made a couple videos with me and apparently his viewers liked me and anyways So he approached me after RTR and said I have an idea for a video series I want to document one conversion start to finish like even the process of shopping around purchase and then every element of Conversion and it would be available like a how-to resource for people who don't know where to start what to do next Would you like to be the recipient of this thing? And I had had this intention for 2017 that I wanted to have a home I could stand up in and I was like Really kind of like Overwhelmed, you know, and I still am actually but ultimately I did say yes I thought about it for a while and I did say yes And I couldn't love this home more seriously, but it's like we are to live in to have something like no effort Yeah, so amazing. I love the the drawer handles here. You did that so we get some antlers of some sort Guys if you didn't know I also donated to the cause You're very welcome. I wasn't using it. I have the portable one, but I wanted a good home for it And this is definitely a good home I think I already know what's behind this because I've seen other videos nice little shower situation and Port-a-party curve, those are great. Yeah similar layout to mine and I like I like it the floors are nice I like I like how you guys use the same seats You can entertain and you got seatbelts. So that's nice jurors. They help with gas. Yeah, right shares. Do you? Yeah, I went I just spent 11 hours talking to the 64 year old Jamaican dreadlock rasta guy Who sat right there next to me. We just chatted for 11 hours straight. That's amazing And tell everybody what you do for a living because I would like to join you at some point Oh, yeah, you should totally come for class So I teach primitive living wilderness survival skills for California survival school And also I'm a back country guide for a wilderness therapy program in southern, Utah That's cool. That's the Anastasi or similar work for the Anastasi foundation in Arizona Which is just magic and now I work for a great program called wingate wilderness. Cool. Yeah So we should hang and and we're gonna go out into the wilderness with like literally nothing I would love to right is that we like we could survive with nothing. Yeah, absolutely. Oh my god I would totally freak out. I I swear like if I don't have water if I don't have food if I think I'm gonna die That's gonna be a serious test for me more so than that bridge in Canada All right, like I said, there's a lot of very interesting people over at this uh van build party and we're gonna go play chess With one of them. Look what I just ran into. It's a pig. Somebody has a pet pig Oh, okay, a real a real legit service animal, huh? Oh my gosh Okay, and and I understand pigs are smarter than dogs Wow Buddies Hi Kevin Hi Kevin, I apologize for eating all of your family members in the past. I feel terrible I went hog wild on the breakfast Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, that's so cool If anybody has never pet a pig before it feels like a dog with a hairspray on it Yet again, I got my butt spanked by a lavender. We'll call him Rob Yes, uh Rob has a cool super cool story. It's a little weird calling to Rob because I call your lavender You can call me anything. Just don't call me too early in the morning By the way, he's awesome. Uh Lavender is one of my viewers I came out to the van bill party to Hoping to meet people like yourself. I feel like I got a backstage pass at a rock concert We got jamie. We got jacks panda carolin There's quite a few characters out here And there's a lot of cool people who aren't youtubers out here including yourself And I know you have a very interesting story something way different than me Okay, and a lot of other people So let's rewind and tell us about you being a hobo and how that came about That's mr. Hobo to you So what so so tell me all about that and what what was it like? It was fantastic Before September 11th twin towers thing. Okay. Why is that? What changed? well before Um, you was out there freedom with movement after the terrorist attack on september 11th The feds came down heavy on Trespassing on rail yards. I didn't know that. Oh man. Yeah, out of you get caught On their property. You could automatically go to jail. Wow six months. Wow. That's crazy. Yeah So how long did you train hop? About eight years. Yeah. And what was what brought you to that or how did you get into it? Well, I'm originally from Memphis, Tennessee After I got out of the army in the early 80s I needed a change. I moved to la in like 88 That was like hitting a brick wall going 90 miles an hour um Three years later. It was before this last housing bubble. There was Some kind of freeze on building interest banks stuff um Times were hard And I decided to hit the road I was in Denver or something salt lake or somewhere Somebody was telling me about travelers aid I said, where is it? They said just go two blocks down there on the corner And I went down there and I was standing. I'm like, I don't see it And a freight train went by I went back and I asked somebody and they said, oh, yeah, it's right down there And I went back and looked again and I didn't see it and another freight train went by and I'm like, oh, I get it So did you get on the first one by yourself? No intimidated. Yeah. I mean, it's kind of stuff when your kids They go down to the nearest rail yard and maybe Grab on to the ladders at a really slow pace and like Let go and run back and you know do Yeah, but this was like pretty serious because you're carrying your gear with you, you know some weight Anyway, I met another guy and um I mentioned to him and he was getting ready to to roll out and he kind of like Let me come with them Cool And that's a whole another story within itself. I'm sure my first train ride was out of grand junction, colorado In the early 90s. Yeah And I went across the northern border of the us up and down the west coast Chicago down all the way into like, I think Alabama across Like from the mississippi all the way out through texas into california, you know, I've done some Some miles Yeah, you don't have to tell us a story about when you quit drinking But I would love because it's it's something that a lot of people could relate to so if you're willing to share that Great, if not a totally understand. It's up to you. No, I'm glad to share it because hopefully others will see it in this slight And say, oh, I could do that. Yeah, well when I left out of la after that housing bubble and like 90 or 91 um I knew I was going to encounter new people and I was aware that Sometimes you got to humble yourself and ask for help along the way I mean because I knew things could get hard um And I didn't want to meet new people and make bad first impressions smelling like alcohol needing, you know a bath and What I mean, it's you some those guys can be an eyesore. Yeah, um So I just said I'm not going to drink And that was about what 27 years ago Were you kind of homeless then for all the 27 years or I like I prefer nomadic. Okay Okay, gotcha. No, actually not the 27 years just through the 90s. Okay, okay because um I wasn't drinking and I had to wear with all to scrape up the funds to go to thai lion To israel to turkey Uh, I did the train Not hoboing I I rode passenger trains um Out of paris into swichlin down into idly and then look back around that's nice Yeah, I mean sober it's cool, man So um do so much more, uh, so you've been a nomad for a while then so this isn't really anything too difficult for you to do Well, I have the nomadic experience. Um, I Like I said the the pedestrian thing for 27 years I swept some things under the rug on those duis that needed to be addressed um About three months ago. I should or four months It took me about four months of red tape to get my license reinstated. Okay um A week after I did that I was approved for an auto loan I've had the the vehicle for about two and a half months And this is the honeymoon. Yeah And I'm I'm not afraid to get out on the road by myself because of my previous experience And sitting in the starbucks watching your videos and others I knew I would meet some really good people out here They're not all just a bunch of hippies and drugies hanging out in the desert and vans and stuff. These are Good-hearted down-to-earth people I would agree with you and uh, uh, a lot of them are really productive Members of society and generous too out here. Jamie with his uh van build just do it working on people's stuff for free And and for people like me when I did not have a driver's license And needing that travel fix I could go into a starbucks and watch Like 40 minutes or an hour's worth of videos from you guys and I'd go I'm okay now. I don't have to jump on a train or a bus and I mean, I'm good for another two weeks I'd like to thank all the boondocking youtube producers for Helping me spiritually There we go. Well, it was very nice meeting you. Yeah, it's been a pleasure. Thanks for my butt three times on the chess table this man got Four stalemates or five in a row And he says he's a beginner. I don't know how he does. Yeah, you're too kind Thanks for watching. That's about it for today. Um, I will catch you guys on the road or actually here tomorrow I think it'll be poking around. Uh, also I wanted to show you what I got. I got myself a crane Uh stabilizer So expect some very cinematic videos Um, I had a camera and I bought the drops and spills with it The camera died and so they wrote me a check for 85 percent of my Purchase price. So I used that to get the camera. So Pretty cool. So buy the drops and spills. It was only like 20 or 30 bucks. Totally worth it